Pasting or dropping OS files into a remote project tree sent a client-local source path to the server, so nothing was copied. Local-source imports are now carried separately from project copies and uploaded over the session SFTP channel: streamed in bounded chunks, created exclusively, cancellable across all selected paths under one task, with partial files removed on failure. Symlinks and Unix file modes are preserved, and special files are skipped and reported. Project-internal paste keeps working when the OS clipboard is briefly unavailable. Native drop positions were assumed to be physical pixels, which shifted the target far from the pointer on Retina displays and with IDE zoom. A shared helper converts them to CSS coordinates for the project tree, the editor and Markdown drop handling, and the agent composer. Composer image drops are now read on the client in remote windows. Verified on macOS against a live SSH host. Windows and Linux were not run: the Windows conversion is unchanged, the Linux one changed. Copy out from a remote tree to the local machine still needs a download workflow.
The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust.
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OpenIDEA brings the IntelliJ IDEA way of working — its keymap, its tool windows, its search-everything habits — to a native app with a Rust core.
Editor, code insight, debugger, Git, terminal, database and HTTP clients, for 60+ languages. Builds for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Benchmark
Opening freqtrade (Python, ~770 files) with warm caches, median of 5 runs:
| OpenIDEA | IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Window with the project | 0.9 s | 3.1 s |
| Ready (CPU settled) | 1.1 s | 13.2 s |
| Memory (USS, all processes) | 169 MB | 2011 MB |
| CPU time until ready | 2.4 s | 47.9 s |
| Idle CPU | 4 % of a core | 7 % of a core |
| Quit | 0.3 s | 5.9 s |
A release build of OpenIDEA from main and IDEA with default settings and plugins, on
Windows 11, 32-core AMD, 62 GB RAM.
IDEA analyses Python more deeply, so "ready" doesn't mean the same work on
both sides. Both are measured from the outside, the same way: see
perf/compare to run it on your machine and projects.
Build
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev
Rust 1.96, Node 22, pnpm and the Tauri prerequisites.
Native notebook execution tests are opt-in and need two distinct Python environments
with ipykernel installed:
OPENIDEA_TEST_PYTHON=/first/env/bin/python \
OPENIDEA_TEST_PYTHON_SECOND=/second/env/bin/python \
cargo test -p ide-notebook --test kernel_runtime -- --ignored --test-threads=1
License
Apache 2.0. Bundled third-party assets are listed in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
Not affiliated with JetBrains. IntelliJ IDEA is a trademark of JetBrains s.r.o.